ErfurtWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PmWiki vs. ProWiki

General Features ErfurtWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
2.11.0
1.9.11
2.5.6
2.0.045
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-02-08 (15 days ago)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-02-08 (15 days ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Apache Software Foundation
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Helmut Leitner
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Python
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
all
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
All
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
System Requirements ErfurtWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
Operating System
any
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix / Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Other Requirements
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
None
none
none
Datastorage ErfurtWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Optional
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Optional
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
Optional
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
no
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Yes
No
Optional
No
Development/Support ErfurtWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
114 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ErfurtWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features ErfurtWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
Email notification
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Links ErfurtWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Some
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
optional
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, see comment ---------------->
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Usability ErfurtWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics ErfurtWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Optional
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output ErfurtWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files ErfurtWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras ErfurtWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin PmWiki ProWiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''ialic text''
''italics''
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
optional or via css
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
{{monospace}}
`monospaced`
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--(strikethrough)--
{-strikethrough-}
[[strike]strikethrough text]
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^superscript^
'^superscript^'
<sup>text</sup>
Subscript Format
optional or via css
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
<sub>text</sub>
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
Aligning Text
optional or via css
%%(text-align: right) text %%
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
indented text
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# numbered list
## numbered list
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
;term:definition
term:: definition
: term : definition
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
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